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8 c Is it nothing to you Is it nothing to yoi Are groping in darl Is it nothing to yoi Might win them fo is it nothing to you TTn nornoi' V* ?? V* * v gai uci LUC oiiua Why do you tarry? Is it nothing to you, Is it nothing to you That He calls you Is it nothing?this Can wash every sii You cannot be neul Is your hand on th< For the time is she Is it nothing to you is u coming 10 yoi In the blood that w Is it nothiug to you As you take your Is It nothing to yoi 'Till the morning v The outcast's woe s Is it nothing to you Is it nothing to yo That the Lord of tl Is it nothing to you Is marred by the t Should the cry go Could you welcome For sad and bitter If He find you wan THE DENVE By Rev At the recent the Presbyterian H. Roberts, as submitted a repc the union betwi Presbyterian Chi chiefly with the adopted by the A bly re-affirmed t and 1906, declarii Confessions of tl ment as to warra Probably one the attention of ance will be the doctrine, (i). In it is asserted tha than the Confess of our Church in third section it is in neither Churc THE PRESBYTEF Contributed THE PASSER-BY. , all ye that pass by, u, that thousands of souls kness and longing for light? u, that a helping hand iever lor uoa ana rignt? i?your Lord's command, ves while the fields are white? The harvest is night! , all ye thai pass by ? that the Savior died? to work in His fields today? blood from His wounded side n, every stain away? tral! You must decide!. * e plow? Oh! turn not away, >rt and the moments fly, i, all ye that pass by? i, all ye that have washed as shed on Calvary? i, all ye rich of earth, ease amid luxury? l, ye that idly wait ranes and the day grows gray? ind the orphan's cry; l, all ye that pass by? u, that the time draws near? he Harvest has tarried long? i that the growing wheat ares so thick and strong? forth, that the Master comes, i Him with a glad new song? will tc your cry, ting and pass you by, ?John Richard Moreland. R ASSEMBLY DELIVERANCE. . Wm. R. Henderson, D. D. meeting of the General Assembly ? Church, U. S. A., in Denver, Dr. Wr chairman of the Union Committe >rt covering some points involved i sen the Northern and Cumberlar Tl. ? * - im-m-a. x iic icpun, or paper, ciea doctrinal issue. This report w; .ssembly, and in so doing the Asser he action of the Assemblies of 19c lg that the systems of doctrine of tl le two Churches were in such agre nt their union. of the first points which will arre the reader of this Assembly delive statements regarding the system 1 the second section of this deliveran* t "It is the system of doctrine rath ion of Faith that binds the membe to unity in doctrinal beliefs." In tl said that, inasmuch as the "Assemb h before the union" determined "tl UAN OF THE SOUTH. ? exact contents of the system < the contents of the system o _ been, in both Churches, and s Church, not fully stated and doctrinal content of the phras is a theological terra incognita it be assprtpH ttiot "it ic ! >* > o. than the Confession of Faith 1 of our Church into unity in doc words, the Assembly has not doctrines are involved in the nevertheless, whatever they r members of our Church in beliefs"! (2). Is it true that the dc phrase, "system of doctrine," i tainty which the Denver deliv with all respect to*the disting committee which formulated 1 begging the question to assert this deliverance, that there declaration or action of the G mining the doctrinal system i Assembly deliverance has necessary, inasmuch as the d phrase has been regarded as si a very early period in the hist Church in America. As Dr. C phrase has "a fixed, historical further says: "The objection th what doctrines belong to the s and therefore if the obligation tion of the system, it can not b are received and what are unfounded. If the question, ' doctrine taught by the Re submitted to a hundred Roi Lutherans, to a hundred men England, or to a hundred see panflid tlipv ur/Mtld ill V..V, W..v^ nvuiu nil ^IVt J^l ^ There is not the slightest d< disinterested scholars as to \ what do not, belong to the i 3f Dr. Roberts himself was noi n. condition of mind upon this e, finds himself by reason of the in "reunited Church" in Tennes: id only a few years before he enl Is land union negotiations, he pi as entitled "The Presbyterian ! n- clearly defines the distinctive < H Presbyterian Church. On paj ie "The third element in the Cc e- tively Calvinistic, and consists are ordinarily called the five st These five points are: (1) Unc< i- conumonai predestination ; (2 of particular redemption as oppc ce ment; (3) total as opposed t< er efficacious as opposed to uncei rs opposed to partial perseveranc le the differentiating features of t ly terian doctrine, the .points wl le from other evangelical Christie Mil July 7, 1909. of doctrine." "therefore, f doctrine always have ire now in the reunited adjudicated." If the e, "system of doctrine," , upon what ground can 'stem of doctrine rather that binds the members :trinal beliefs"? In other officially declared what "system of doctrine"; nay be, they bind "the ito unity in doctrinal jctrinal content of the s involved in the uncererance suggests? It is, uished chairman of the this deliverance, simply , as is virtually done in has never been any eneral Assembly deterof the Confession. No ever been considered octrinal content of the ibstantially settled from ory of the Presbyterian Charles Hodge says, this meaning." Dr. Hodge at it is an open question ystem and what do not, be limited to the aHnn e known what doctrines : rejected, is entirely What is the system of formed Churches' ? be manists, to a hundred ibers of the Church of ptics, if intelligent hnd icisely the same answer. 5ubt or dispute among vhat doctrines do, and aith of the Reformed." t always in the foggy point in which he now critical situation of the see and Missouri. For :ered upon the Cumberlblished a little treatise System," in which he doctrinal position of the ges 16 and 17 he says: >ntession is the distinci of the doctrines which points of Calvinism, onditional as opposed to ) definite atonement or ised to indefinite atone) partial depravity; (4) rtain grace; (5) final as e. These five points are he Reformed or Presbylich separate Calvinists ins." * - -